Licking the Days

Lyrics

Licking the day's every shape Every crime on the move How 'bout you? The purples and pinks Rise and swallowing everything new How 'bout you? No wonder I'm digging through patterns I can and can't undo How 'bout you? "Who" and "Why," not important to keep Passing by, through the flimsy retreat Re-approach the lung, happy and loud There's a cat somewhere hiding his smile from you And all today The wrists align Side by side, I watch the fleet fly And if today, and with the sun It's you and I, in the real fire All of who we are never Living in spurts, I'm busting to burst out of line The stones in my belly, so hot And so favoured by time's right The smiles, I rake in, like sounds, I've been taken in kind F.D.R., northern-bound, the Portland bridge Brings me round and around Licking the day's every shape Bending more than I choose, you The children laugh loudly and play in the winds Afternoon, how 'bout you? There's men outside hanging their palms Flex and hollow, their moods So certain in life without meaning Where were you when you crossed the street? I'm playing my mind out in secret As if there was such a thing Once it's thought, it been But never like it could if you'd only Have grabbed from above Once alone, it finds reason To give across from the eyes of the stone [Instrumental] All today, the wrists align Side by side, watch the fleets fly And if today, and with the sun You and I, in the real fire And all of who we are and never And if you're clean, and if I'm clean As I'm waking up behind the water Deaf to sound, other than what you make I bring the nail to the hammer What you got, just maybe it's a whisper Fly me up because I'm cracking down Ignore the hard to just ignore the hard And babies beat me in the morning My body shakes, and takes the whole thing down I feel the long and frozen shadow, still Growing taking up entire minds Keep me close to where you're breathing still Take me in to let it all come through And if I'm winged, it's only bottoms And if I'm clean, it's only robing me And if you come, I'll know enough go dream And if you come, and if I'm clean